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Application of Enhanced Hadamard Error Correcting Code in Video-Watermarking and His Comparison to Reed-Solomon Code MATEC Web of Conferences 125, 05007 (2017) DOI: 10.1051/ matecconf/201712505007 CSCC 2017 Application of Enhanced Hadamard Error Correcting Code in Video-Watermarking and his comparison to Reed-Solomon Code. Andrzej Dziech1, Jakob Wassermann2, * 1 Dept. of Telecommunication, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Krakow, Poland 2 Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, 1200 Wien Austria Abstract. Error Correcting Codes are playing a very important role in Video Watermarking technology. Because of very high compression rate (about 1:200) normally the watermarks can barely survive such massive attacks, despite very sophisticated embedding strategies. It can only work with a sufficient error correcting code method. In this paper, the authors compare the new developed Enhanced Hadamard Error Correcting Code (EHC) with well known Reed-Solomon Code regarding its ability to preserve watermarks in the embedded video. The main idea of this new developed multidimensional Enhanced Hadamard Error Correcting Code is to map the 2D basis images into a collection of one-dimensional rows and to apply a 1D Hadamard decoding procedure on them. After this, the image is reassembled, and the 2D decoding procedure can be applied more efficiently. With this approach, it is possible to overcome the theoretical limit of error correcting capability of (d-1)/2 bits, where d is a Hamming distance. Even better results could be achieved by expanding the 2D EHC to 3D. To prove the efficiency and practicability of this new Enhanced Hadamard Code, the method was applied to a video Watermarking Coding Scheme. The Video Watermarking Embedding procedure decomposes the initial video trough multi-Level Interframe Wavelet Transform. The low pass filtered part of the video stream is used for embedding the watermarks, which are protected respectively by Enhanced Hadamard or Reed-Solomon Correcting Code. The experimental results show that EHC performs much better than RS Code and seems to be very robust against strong MPEG compression. 1 Introduction strong prove of its effectiveness. The reason for selecting Video Watermarking lies in strong compression ratio, Many applications in telecommunication technologies normally factors greater than 1:200, which are applied to are using Hadamard Error Correcting Code. Plotkin [1] the video sequences. For example, an uncompressed was the first who discovered in 1960 error correcting HDTV video stream has a data rate of 1.2Gbit/s and for capabilities of Hadamard matrices. Bose, Shrikhande[2] distribution reason, it must be compressed to 6Mbit/s. and Peterson [3] also have made important contributions. For embedded watermarks, it is a big challenge to sur- Levenshstein [4] was the first who introduced an algo- vive such strong compression ratio. Error correcting rithm for constructing a Hadamard Error Correcting code plays a decisive role in surviving of the embedded Code. The most famous application of Hadamard Error Watermarks. Correcting Code was the NASA space mission in 1969 This paper has followed the structure: In Chapter 2 con- of Mariner and Voyager spacecrafts. Thanks to the pow- tains the introduction to the enhanced Hadamard Error erful error correcting capability of this code it was possi- Correcting Code and its error correcting capabilities. ble to decode properly high-quality pictures of Mars, In Chapter 3, the authors explain the Video Water- Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus [5]. marking Scheme and the Chapter 4 presents the results In this paper we introduced a new type of multidimen- and discussion. sional Hadamard Code, we called it Enhanced Hadamard Error Correcting Code (EHC). It can overcome the limit of error correcting capability of n/2-1 bits of standard 2 Enhanced Hadamard Error Correcting Hadamard Code, where the codeword length and the Code Hamming distance d have the same value n. The applica- In this chapter, we will give an overview of one- tion of this Code in Video Watermarking gives also a dimensional and two-dimensional Hadamard Code. Then * Corresponding author: [email protected] © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). MATEC Web of Conferences 125, 05007 (2017) DOI: 10.1051/ matecconf/201712505007 CSCC 2017 the authors explain the enhanced version. that position gives us the ultimate information of the message (010). In the case of one error, the third component of the 2.1 One-Dimensional Hadamard Code spectrum vector d still remains the highest one. In the case of a corrupted codeword c=[-1 1 -1 -1 1 1 -1 -1], the The Hadamard code of n-bit is a non-linear code, which Hadamard spectrum vector delivers: is generated by rows of a n*n Hadamard Matrix Hn. It d 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 H 8 can encode k=log2(n) messages and is denoted as (n,k). d 2 2 6 2 2 2 2 2 The Hamming distance is and it can correct 1 n/2, n/2- The third component is still the highest one, so the errors. In the case of n=8 we obtain the following ma- message can be decoded. trix: In the case of two errors, it is already impossible to decode the message unambiguously. C1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 S D T What is interesting about Hadamard Code is that in the D1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1T (1) D T case of seven and eight errors it is possible again to 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 D T decode the codewords. In case of eight errors, our code- D1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 T H8 D T word 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 D T c=[-1- 1 1 1 -1 -1 1 1] D1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 T D T is completely corrupted. In this case, the absolute value D1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 T D T E1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1U of the third component of the Hadamard spectrum is the highest one, and it has a negative sign. A negative sign The code words are the rows of this Matrix H8. In Table means that the decoded code word must be inverted. 1 the Code Book of the linear Code (8,3) is depicted. The Hamming distance of this code is h=4. d 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 H8 d 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 In the case of seven errors, we have exactly the same Message Code Words situation as with one error, however, with one small 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 difference: the third component has a negative sign, what 0 0 1 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 means the decoded word must be inverted. 0 1 0 1 1 -1 -1 1 1 -1 -1 The following figure shows the error correcting capability of an 8 bit Hadamard code. 0 1 1 1 -1 -1 1 1 -1 -1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 1 0 1 1 -1 1 -1 -1 1 -1 1 1 1 0 1 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -1 -1 1 -1 1 1 -1 Table 1. Code Book of Hadamard Code (8,3) The decoding procedure is based on Hadamard Spectrum. The spectral component with the highest value determines the decoding message. The received code word is used to build the Hadamard spectrum vector, which enables to determine the corresponding Fig. 1. Error Correcting Capability of 8 Bit Hadamard message. The spectrum vector d is calculated by Code multiplying the code vector c by the Hadamard Matrix H8 . 4 The 8 bit Hadamard code can correct 1,7 and 8-bit errors d c H 8 (2) regardless where they occur within the code words. Supposed we received the code word: Generally, we can say that n bit Hadamard code can c 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 correct totally n/2-1 types of errors. The number of error bits occurring in the range According to the Eq.(2), the decoded Hadamard F n V F3 V Spectrum vector is: from G1,, 1W to G n 1,..., nW H 4 X H4 X d 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 H8 d 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 Two-Dimensional Hadamard Error Correc- The third component of the vector d has the highest ting Code value in the spectrum; all others are zeroes, d(3)=8, d(i)=0 for i=1,..8 and i≠3. It implicates that the code The 2D Hadamard Error Correcting Code uses so-called word at the position i=3 was received. The codebook at 2 MATEC Web of Conferences 125, 05007 (2017) DOI: 10.1051/ matecconf/201712505007 CSCC 2017 basis images instead of Hadamard vectors. The basis fact, identification of the basis image trough its spectral images functions are orthogonal to each other, and they coefficient, can be utilized to construct error-correcting can be generated from the Hadamard matrix by multipli- code. The codewords are the pattern of basis images, and cation of columns and rows. Generally, we can write they can be decoded unambiguously by detecting the Aml Hn(:,l)*Hn(m,:) (3) highest absolute coefficient value inside of 2D Hada- In case of 4x4 Hadamard matrix mard Spectrum according to Eq.(4). C1 1 1 1 S Message Basis Matrix Pulse Stream D T Image Element (code word) D1 1 1 1T H 0000 C11 0000000000000000 4 D T D1 1 1 1T D T E1 1 1 1 U 0001 C12 0101010101010101 We can calculate the complete set of 16 such basis imag- es.
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